Lightbits Labs Assigned Two Patents

Storage and method for application aware processing
Lightbits Labs Ltd., Kfar Saba, Israel, has been assigned a patent (10,963,393) developed by Ben-Yehuda, Shmuel, Haifa, Israel, Efrati, Ofir, Even Yehuda, Israel, Gordon, Abel Alkon, Haifa, Israel, Kirzner, Eran, Moshav Elishama, Israel, and Trumper, Fabian, Sunnyvale, CA, for “storage system and a method for application aware processing.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method for accessing a storage system, the method may include receiving a block call, from a processor that executes an application and by a storage engine of a computer that is coupled to a storage system, generating, by the storage engine and based on the block call, a key value call, and sending the key value call to a key value frontend of the storage system.”

The patent application was filed on December 29, 2017 (15/857,758).

Storage system having in-line hardware accelerator
Lightbits Labs Ltd., Kfar Saba, Israel, has been assigned a patent (10,956,346) developed by Ben-Yehuda, Shmuel, Haifa, Israel, Efrati, Ofir, Even Yehuda, Israel, Grimberg, Sagi, Kfar-Saba, Israel, Kirzner, Eran, Moshav Elishama, Israel, Tishel, Ziv, Kiryat Ono, Israel, and Trumper, Fabian, Modiin, Israel, for a “storage system having an in-line hardware accelerator“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A storage system that includes an in-line hardware accelerator, a solid-state drive (SSD) unit, a central processing unit (CPU) a volatile memory module, and an accelerator memory module that is coupled to the in-line hardware accelerator or belongs to the in-line hardware accelerator, wherein the in-line hardware accelerator is directly coupled to the SSD unit, the volatile memory and the non-volatile memory, wherein the CPU is directly coupled to the volatile memory and to the non-volatile memory, wherein the in-line hardware accelerator is configured to manage access to the SSD unit, wherein the in-line accelerator is configured to retrieve data stored in the volatile memory module and the non-volatile memory module without involving the CPU.”

The patent application was filed on December 29, 2017 (15/857,756)